Brain Tissue Transplantation
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Cell transplantation: a future therapy for narcolepsy?

30 Jul 2009 Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep-onset rapid eye movement (REM) sleep periods. Narcolepsy is now identified to be a neurodegenerative disease, as there is a ... Read more...

Survival and early functional integration of dopaminergic progenitor cells following transplantation in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.

29 Jun 2009 Dopaminergic (DA) grafts in rat models of Parkinson's disease (PD) have previously been derived from embryonic day (E) 14 grafts. Because there is an increasing interest in the restorative capacity of DA stem and progenitor cells, in the present ... Read more...

Combined extrinsic and intrinsic manipulations exert complementary neuronal enrichment in embryonic rat neural precursor cultures: an in vitro and in vivo analysis.

29 Jun 2009 Numerous central nervous system (CNS) disorders share a common pathology in dysregulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) inhibitory signaling. Transplantation of GABA-releasing cells at the site of disinhibition holds promise for alleviating ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain Tissue Transplantation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Neuroscience. Fetal cells again? 14 Oct 2009
• Cell transplantation: a future therapy for narcolepsy? 30 Jul 2009
• Survival and early functional integration of dopaminergic progenitor cells following transplantation in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Combined extrinsic and intrinsic manipulations exert complementary neuronal enrichment in embryonic rat neural precursor cultures: an in vitro and in vivo analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Pattern of long-term sensorimotor recovery following intrastriatal and--accumbens DA micrografts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Embryonic substantia nigra grafts in the mesencephalon send neurites to the host striatum in non-human primate after overexpression of GDNF. 29 Jun 2009
• Transplantation of subventricular zone neural precursors induces an endogenous precursor cell response in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. 29 Jun 2009
• Beneficial effects of antioxidant-enriched diet for tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons in ventral mesencephalic tissue in oculo grafts. 29 Jun 2009
• Celebrating neural repair. 29 Jun 2009
• The dynamics of long-term transgene expression in engrafted neural stem cells. 29 Jun 2009
• Effect of levodopa priming on dopamine neuron transplant efficacy and induction of abnormal involuntary movements in parkinsonian rats. 29 Jun 2009
• Identification of transplantable dopamine neuron precursors at different stages of midbrain neurogenesis. 21 Jun 2009
• Calibration of neurotransmitter release from neural cells for therapeutic implants. 30 May 2009
• Striatal transplantation for multiple system atrophy--are grafts affected by alpha-synucleinopathy? 17 May 2009
• Regulating ethical issues in cell-based interventions: lessons from universal declaration on bioethics and human rights. 29 Apr 2009
• Changes in the self: the need for conceptual research next to empirical research. 29 Apr 2009
• Intended changes are not always good, and unintended changes are not always bad--why? 29 Apr 2009
• Ethical challenges in cell-based interventions for neurological conditions: some lessons to be learnt from clinical transplantation trials in patients with Parkinson's disease. 29 Apr 2009
• Unintended benefits arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions. 29 Apr 2009
• Scare-mongering and the anticipatory ethics of experimental technologies. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Brain Tissue Transplantation'

Definition: Transference of brain tissue, either from a fetus or from a born individual, between individuals of the same species or between individuals of different species.

Descriptor UI: D016380

Alternative terms: Brain Tissue Transplantation; Transplantation, Brain Tissue; Brain Tissue Transplantations; Tissue Transplantation, Brain; Tissue Transplantations, Brain; Transplantations, Brain Tissue; Grafting, Brain Tissue; Brain Tissue Grafting; Brain Tissue Graftings; Graftings, Brain Tissue; Tissue Grafting, Brain; Tissue Graftings, Brain;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; ethnology; immunology; pathology; physiology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; ultrasonography;

Tree Number: E04.525.090; E04.936.580.090;

History Note: 91; was BRAIN/transplantation 1966-90

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific part of brain /transpl (IM or NIM); do not use /util except by MeSH definition; do not coord with TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS unless particularly discussed; transpl of fetal or embryonic brain tissue: coord IM with FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION (IM) + specific tissue /transpl + /embryol if pertinent (IM or NIM)